Joe Petrich 🟪
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gm fellow casters. For the engineers out there, if given the choice between a take-home exercise and a live coding interview, which would you choose?
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not an engineer, (tech recruiter) but candidates respond really really well to take-home exercises. they feel it's the most fair assessment, as well as the most enjoyable. it gives candidates the sense that you're interviewing w/ confidence and know what you're looking for.
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Joe Petrich 🟪
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Do you have stats on drop off rate for both options? I've had 2 candidates choose to do the take-home and then not do it, with no feedback on the exercise. I've got a small sample size but that's what prompted this question.
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https://i.imgur.com/4jKgws3.png
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Joe Petrich 🟪
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This is amazing, thanks so much! We're working with a sourcing recruiter from a VC. After that it's me doing the screening, and technical assessment before a 2ndary opinion from CTO and finally CEO. I explain this process in the screening if the candidate is interested
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Joe Petrich 🟪
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One candidate did accept another offer, the other I just never heard from again, so yeah that could be great signal that the person isn't reliable or that interested. I'm definitely not removing the option immediately, but...
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Joe Petrich 🟪
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I've decided to add the option to do live coding of an addition to a side project as another option, especially if I've been able to look at the candidate's Github ahead of time.
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Joe Petrich 🟪
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I really appreciate your well-thought-out response and would love to stay in touch as we grow and continue to run into recruiting possibilities and challenges!
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